Sentences with phrase «often ironic titles»

In addition, Fischli and Weiss gave each work a poetic, often ironic title based on its appearance: a vertical assemblage involving a bottle, a carrot, and a spatula, all held together by a piece of cord, is called The Roped Mountaineers; a bottle and metal vice form the base of an almost impossibly cantilevered construction, with a tea kettle, a trowel, and a feather duster reaching end - to - end out into space, in As Far As It Goes.

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Together, they paint a puckish portrait of the auteur, from Bale's discovery that Malick would often shoot him surreptitiously — at last justifying his Method posturing between takes — to Chief Stephen R. Adkins of the Chickahominy Tribe revealing that «Terry» (always «Terry») told him to consider the title ironic after Adkins expressed his displeasure with a 5,000 - year - old civilization being Eurocentrically referred to as «new.»

The titles of the artworks, which often refer to the artist as the «Negress,» stress her ironic position, exaggerating the stereotypical expectations thrust upon minority artists.